A spike in respiratory infections forced some campuses to close. More may face troubles in the new year.
Van Dyke Public Schools in Michigan, with fewer than 2,000 students, closed for a day in December to do a deep cleaning.
“It seems there are too many illnesses going around to safely and healthily run our buildings,” the district said in an announcement. “It’s definitely December in Michigan.”Brian Creasman, superintendent of Fleming County Schools in Kentucky, made the tough call to cancel four school days in November after illnesses hit his staff so hard he worried that there were not enough adults to ensure students could be safely supervised.
The ripple effects of sick kids and shuttered day cares spread to hospitals overwhelmed with pediatric patients and parents forced to miss to work. More than 100,000 people missed work because of child-care issues in October, , a number exceeding even the worst months of the pandemic. And it has led to spot shortages of children’s medications.Colorado saw an extraordinary spike in the number of children hospitalized for RSV, and tallied 447 outbreaks in schools and day-care facilities, according to
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